St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-02
SECOND OF ITS KIND.
The Splendid New Home the
Globe Is to Have in
Minneapolis.
1t is to Be Completed and
Ready for Occupancy
About June 1, 1888.
The Cost to Be 100000. and
1t is to Be a Model
Establishment.
An Illustration Giving an Idea
Of the Magnificent Struet-
upe to Be.

lie GLOBE Tall tower III OF. raul
has become famous all over the United
States, and the remarkable sights dis
closed by its great altitude have been
told in every leading paper in the cOun-
try. BY the time the coming Minnesota
winter shall have passed into spring the
keen-eyed observer in the tall tower,
casting his eyes toward Minneapolis,
will discover a sight more pleasing than
any yet chrOnicled from that post of OBJ
servatiOn. He will discern a second
tall tower rising above the buildings of
the Flour City, to greet its now famous
twin in the Sanity City. The DAILY
GLOBE is to have habitation in Mime
apoliS that will be home worthy the
paper and building creditable to the
city. An enterprise of this moment
could not, as a matter of news, remain
entirely quiet, and the air of Mime
apoliS has been filed with im-
perfect rumors of the GLOBES
last stroke, but the time has arrived
when the details may be made known
and the complete plans given to the
public. The deed has alre ady been re-
corded which transferred from George
Shepherd to Lewis Baker forty-fOur feet
of ground on the north side of Fourth
street, between Nicollet and Hennepin
avenues, for 81, 900; and for the past
week large force of men has bee at
work eXcavating for the foundation of
the noble structure which will soon rise
upon the site.
1t is almost unnecessary to tell the
Minneapolis public of the rapidly in
creaSing business of the GLOBE in that
city, which has more than doubled in
the past year. Its circulation has grown
and extended until it covers every part
of the city, and its advertising columns
are always filled with the cards of the
best merchants and dealers of Mime
apOlis, any one of whom is willing to
testify to the benefits realized by an ad
vertisement in the GLOBE. 1t has been
obvious for some time past that
the Minneapolis office of the GLOBE
must soon look to larger and permanent
quarters. and it has long been the inten-
ton OF the management to still further
identify the department with the Flour
City by the erection of an elegant and
attractive home; in fact, active work in
that direction has been thus far delayed
only by the difficulty in securing ground
in the central part of the city and in every
way eligible for the required pur-
pose. Minneapolis corner lots, in the
business sections, are as scarce as bust
ReSs failures, and it was only recently
the GLOBE succeeded in purchasing a
site upon which its Minneapolis home
iGnOuld rise, This has been accomplished
End the initial work begun. The founda-
zion will be in before the snow flies and
by the earliest peep of spring large |
3orce of men will be at work and the |
structure pushed to completion, which |
event will occur about June 1, 1888.
The accompanying illustration will |
convey the best idea of the DAILY |
GLOBE building, Minneapolis. 1t is to |
be magnificent structure, elegant in |
architectural design, tall and command
ing in appearance and solid and dura- |
BILE in construction. In beauty of form |
and finish it will have no equal in Min
The front elevation is boldly origi-
nal in design, combining the |
romanesque and Renaissance. and is |
surmounted by a unique series of !
gables, crowned with an observatory.
The magnificent GLOBE building at st. |
Paul has furnished an unequaled view |
for thousands of visitors, and it is the
intention of providing in Minneapolis
an observatory equally lofty and fasci-
the most perfect style, and with every |
modern appliance for appearance, du-
rability, safety and convenience, and |
the present idea is to devote such |
care to the finish, interior and exterior.
that the Minneapolis home of the GLOBE |
will be one of the objects of interest
which citizens will point out to the in
curing stranger. The material will be |
stone and iron, the choice of the former |
still being open between blue granite |
and Superior brown stone, either of |
which will make handsome front of |
eight stories. The structure will cost |
in the neighbOrhOod of 100000, and |
will, complete, make one of the hand |
some, model newspaper establishments |
of the world, fully equipped from foun-
dation stones to flag staff.
The Minneapolis department is de- |
voted entirely to the interests of Mime |
apolis, and the erection of the magnifi- |
cent block will identify it firmly with
those interests. The corporation which
will erect the structure, known as
the Daily Globe Building company, is
composed of some of the leading bust
ness men of the city, and that portion of
the stock held in Minneapolis is divided
among prominent men whose interest
in, and loyalty to the city cannot
be questioned. The GLOBE stands
upon no uncertain ground in Min
neapoliS. Ii it has won it's
way into the esteem and friendship of
the masses of the people it has done SO
Oh its worth and by no false pretenses,
and the erection of this palatial home is
but the earnest of its continuance of
that policy which has made it the evan
gel of good will and good feeling be-
tween the Twin Cities.